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Like so many people who have written, I would have given 0 stars if I could. I rarely write reviews, but am so livid that I decided to write. I believe this company deserve to go under. I don’t wish for any of their regular employees to be without jobs, but their Exec or senior managers capable of making and implementing decisions should be made redundant for total and utter lack of common sense and unethical behaviour. I have spent HOURS trying to sort out ending my broadband/TV/phone contract. Gave them plenty of notice, even said that if I could sign up with them again once I’d moved (moving in with a friend who’s on a contract with BT), I would. Not now. NEVER AGAIN! Just on today’s calls alone, I held for around 45 mins before getting to the moving home team. Spoke to the guy who answered for 15 mins, he told me that the billing team would deal with my complaint, so I asked to be put through to them. Held for another 30 mins only for them to hang up on me. Called back again, finally got through to billing after another 35 mins, and and then got the same answer. They sent the packaging for returning the kit to my new address 3 weeks early, now I’m being emailed and txt’d saying I’ll incur a penalty charge if I don’t return it. I’m still paying them for the service! Direct debit of £54 comes out on 13 August, I move out on 10 August and was originally told the final bill would be just over £3. So do they generate a final invoice for this amount? They certainly don’t. They say they will still take the direct debit of £54 and then send a cheque for the credit (yes, you read it right - a cheque!!!). Immediately? No, why stop there. They’ll send it via post after 45 days. What the heck!!! Who uses cheques? And why 45 days you may well ask. Apparently it takes that long to process. Seriously?! And as if that wasn’t enough to send me over the edge, then the final straw was when I checked whether they had my new address on file to actually send the cheque to. I thought it wouldn’t be safe to assume that as the boxes for the kit had been sent to my new address it would follow that one department might actually communicate with another. Just as well I checked - billing didn’t have this on my account. They do now. I feel sorry for the man and the woman who I spoke to this morning as they’re just on the other end of the line. I hope that someone senior actually listens to the recorded conversation. Not that they’ll give a flying continental, I’m sure. I had heard that customer service could be bad, but thought that the broadband speed would make up for it. Plus they were very much on the ball getting everything set up, so customer service at that point was good. Please don’t join them just because broadband speed is good. If only I’d read these reviews beforehand, I would have stayed well away. I don’t expect them to make any change to their systems - the fact that so many people have complained and they’ve not done anything about it makes it clear that they just don’t care. But if this review means that just one person considering signing up, decides not to, then the time I’ve taken to write this will be worth it.
4 years ago
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